'Violence and The Future of the 1970s Counterculture: The Co-Op Wars | Full Documentary'

56:41 Jul 15, 2023
'In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the Vietnam War created a unique alternative economy featuring dozens of food cooperatives, or co-ops as they\'re more commonly known now, but a shadowy revolutionary group used conflicts over class and race to try to seize the movement. The ensuing clash pitted friends and comrades in a sometimes violent conflict over the future of the counterculture known as the co-op wars.  00:00:00 The Co-Op Wars - in-fighting, violence, and the evolution of the revolution 00:02:44 The hippy commune that started the co-op movement in Minnesota 00:07:22 The West Bank\'s new food experiment: The People\'s Pantry 00:10:00 The creation of Minneapolis\'s first co-op 00:12:08 The co-op movement explodes in Minnesota 00:16:00 The mysterious figure who infiltrated the counterculture movement 00:19:00 Racial issues in the revolution and bourgeois guilt 00:22:51 Mobilizing the working class through co-ops and infiltrating the hippies 00:24:34 The C.O., Moe Burton, and the beginning of the co-op wars 00:29:01 Seizing control of the People\'s Warehouse 00:36:55 The legal and social battle for the People\'s Warehouse 00:41:52 Threats, violence, and the co-op wars 00:48:05 The end of the co-op wars and the C.O. 00:51:18 38 years later...  #CoOpWars #FullDocumentary #TwinCitiesPBS  See inside our world on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tptofficial/ Become our neighbor on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tptpbs Give us a shout on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tpt Discover more local stories: https://www.tptoriginals.org/' 

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